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Opinion: Ron Paul Defending Terrorists?

Dorothy Rabinowitz on liberal and libertarian outrage at the al-Awlaki killing.

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... so ... this issue presidential candidates react and we're now are fortunate to have ... Dorothy Rabinowitz With and she is our ... Pulitzer Prize winner and thinking ... we yet this is kind of ... Opel's beyond belief toward the end of a seven inch or there's a presidential candidate directly to ... people who were on the stage the other side of the GOP presidential debate ... Ron Paul Gary Johnson yet ... questioning the legality of taking out ... one of the world's most ... wanted terrorists hard to believe ... but it shouldn't be hard to believe because we've been listening ... to Ron Paul for a long time ... and though he may look like somebody is was and blueprints we don't go ... to the stuff that is to shoot down ... represent the real thing and it is a pathological ... hatred ... of the country of the government ... which has been masquerading what he's done has become ... an enemy of libertarian issue in the sense that if you think this is libertarianism ... this is bad for libertarianism ... what ... Montcoal has been taught me that repeatedly is that we have no rights in the world that the security begins at the borders ... when is this adventure ... so he now characterise this and this is the important thing ... playing wise and his acolytes ... lead when he says well ... just because the president ... what he was in that ... time is that by itself declared ... the self-declared bad guy ... and no one comes back ... the intent on pullbacks until to the Constitution was what the framers did ... when they spoke of due process you can go back and read the words ... it was left distinctly bathe ... and it was said in such circumstances the process that is to block ... repeatedly ... the Supreme Court has held ... we have not signed it still is that that right ... read the image in the that of ... Mr Polyus Mr Johnson as well be giving a bad name to libertarians about me they ... were Jerry law professors if you were around the United States or with the same ... obviously ... the Constitution gives the president ... broad authority to defend the United States ... in time before ... here we have a bit overseas to get see was an American citizen but has declared the United States actively trying to kill our citizens ... several attempts ... a great week we mentioned ... before the incident but there were there were others as well ... absolutely but what happens then when you have so-called candidate for the United States like getting Johnson think this is something that in his little mind he picked up as ... peaceful plan ... is to distinguish me this will do this but it's extraordinary that they do it but never ... let it be said that these people don't believe ... this is getting them somewhere in some corner ... and that means something ... to put herself apart ... from the nation ... it very clear moral stance ... very like the ACLU which immediately after nine eleven took place was out this silly the government ... every fifteen minutes an essay that metaphorically ... they are in opposition and it is time ... we recognize that this is the left know Ron Paul is not the left ... but it suits them to make common cause with this ... the breakdance by the common sense Americans know ... that this is that that ... the restaurant walls ... out to be in for this ... and I include ... strangely Barry Manilow that great political minded Singur who says he believes everything they tell you something ... is it that you supporting him ... this man who has done nothing but still Bio and accuse the government of the greatest immorality one of the West which is in the world over ... I wonder whether this argument has any